Shocking Pictures Coming Soon
You just don’t realize some things until the evidence is presented to you on paper. Or, in this case, in the form of a digital picture.
My wife had me move the pictures off the cards in our digital cameras yesterday, and as is our habit, we all got together and looked at the hundreds of pictures. The pictures went back to last December, and when I saw the pictures of me from that time, I was shocked.
By my counting, I’ve lost 63 pounds from my highest weight, and while I know that there is some difference, looking at those old pictures was shocking.
How did I ever let myself get that BIG? Nobody ever intends for it to happen, but it does.
It doesn’t help that our lifestyles are lousy. Fast food, sitting in a chair at work for hours at a stretch, easy access to junk food (other than the campus of Brigham Young University, where I attended some language refresher courses while in the military, I’ve never seen a vending machine with healthy snacks), and having only other overweight people to compare yourself to — all lead to a lethargy about our weight and, ultimately, our health.
So here’s a wake-up call. PLEASE do these steps to see if you need to take action to reclaim your health:
1. Weigh yourself. Yes, get on the scales and see how much you weigh. And measure yourself if you don’t know how tall you are (you’ll need it for the next step).
If you measure yourself in centimeters, divide your height by 2.51 to get your height in inches if you want to use the resource I’m linking to below. To get from kilograms to pounds, divide by 2.2.
2. Find a body weight chart. I found one at this link (no endorsement of the site is implied, but the chart seems to agree with others I’ve seen). Find the row that has your height.
3. Are you heavier than what the chart says you should be? Then unless you have a very good reason (like you’re a professional athlete with muscles on your fingernails and ear lobes), then you are overweight.
4. What are you going to do about it? While I can’t answer that question, I can tell you what I’ve been able to do so far…
I’ve lost 63 pounds to date and have been on an all raw food diet for just over 100 days. While there are other ways to lose weight, this way was pretty darn easy. I never felt hungry once I got the right information and help.
Don’t know where to start? How about this: Get yourself a copy of Dr. Graham’s 80/10/10 diet book, read it carefully, and do what it says to do. I also STRONGLY recommend that you find a supportive community if you are going to move to an all raw food diet (Roger Haeske’s site is a good one — the link is in the blogroll).
I’ll post my “before and after” pics in a couple of days. Hopefully it will show you just a bit of what’s possible with this lifestyle — and encourage you to either take action or stay on course.
Smacznego,
Tom